Dear of Troy: I used to drive over a Glebe Road in (I think) Fairfax, VA. I wondered where
the name came from.
glebe
n.
5ME < L gleba, clod, lump of earth (in ML(Ec), glebe), akin to globus: see GLOBE6
1 a piece of church land forming part or all of a benefice
2 [Archaic] soil; earth; esp., a piece of cultivated land